Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae as etiological agents of conjunctivitis outbreaks in the region of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection is often silent and can lead to long-term reproductive complications in women. In this study, we determined the prevalence of CT infection and possible associations between the presence of the infection and clinical-epidemiological variables in pregnant women attended at the Basic ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Azevedo MJN,Nunes SDS,Oliveira FG,Rocha DAP

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) caused by Listeria monocytogenes in cirrhotic patients are reported. In one of the cases, the microorganism was isolated from pleural effusion and ascites. SBP is a serious and common complication of patients with ascites caused by hepatic cirrhosis and the culture ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Toyoshima MT,Apanavicius A,de Matos Soeiro A,de Almeida GM,Arai MH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with the diagnosis of subacute juvenile paracoccidioidomycosis who, at the time of their first visit, had no signs or symptoms of lung involvement were studied. Initially the diagnosis was confirmed by the observation of P. brasiliensis in biopsy material obtained from clinically involved lymphadenopath...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Restrepo A,Trujillo M,Gomez I

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological profile of snakebite accidents reported by the toxicological assistance center in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Database information on snakebite accidents was analyzed regarding the period from January 2003 to December 2011. A total of 1063 cases were found. The a...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Albuquerque PL,Silva Junior GB,Jacinto CN,Lima CB,Lima JB,Veras Mdo S,Daher EF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological screening was performed in 615 individuals aged 0-87 years, living in the city of Cordoba, Argentina to study the relationship between antibody prevalence for the SLE virus and age. A 13.98% prevalence of neutralizing antibodies was obtained and its relation to age was significantly high (p = 0.045). The...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Spinsanti LI,Ré VE,Díaz MP,Contigiani MS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of TNF-alpha in patients with Kala-azar has drawn increasing interest due to its regulatory role on the immune system, in addition to its cachetizing activity. The objective of this study was to examine the association between plasma levels of TNF-alpha, measured by immunoreactivity (ELISA) and bioactivity ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Salomão R,Castelo Filho A,de Medeiros IM,Sicolo MA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutagenic activities of 16 anti-parasite drugs were screened by the Simultest in both qualitative (spot test) and quantitative (plate incorporation) assays with a Salmonella typhimurium pool composed by the indicator strains TA97, TA98, TA100 and TA102. Four anti Chagas' disease drugs (nifurtimox, benznidazole, CL...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Melo ME,Ferreira LC

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical examination of nails was carried out in 210 elderly patients and nail scrapings were obtained from onychomycosis suggested lesions in order to determine their causative agents, incidence and clinical characteristics. Diagnostic was confirmed by the isolation of the agents from 74 patients, mainly from toe-nai...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Rodríguez-Soto ME,Fernández-Andreu CM,Moya Duque S,Rodríguez Díaz RM,Martínez-Machín G

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal parasitic infections are prevalent throughout many countries. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasite carriers among 21,347 expatriate workers, including food handlers and housemaids attending the public health center laboratory in Sharjah, UAE. Stool sample collection was perfor...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Dafalla AIA,Almuhairi SASO,AlHosani MHJ,Mohamed MY,Alkous MIA,AlAzzawi MA,Abakar AD,Nour BYM,Hasan H,AbuOdeh RO,ElBakri A

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The high mortality rates associated with candidemia episodes and the emergence of resistance to antifungal agents necessitate the monitoring of the susceptibility of fungal isolates to antifungal treatments. The new, recently approved, species-specific clinical breakpoints (SS-CBPs)(M27-S4) for evaluating susceptibili...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Santos ER,Dal Forno CF,Hernandez MG,Kubiça TF,Venturini TP,Chassot F,Santurio JM,Alves SH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three calves experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni, and passing viable eggs in feces, as well as 5 normal calves (coming from a non-endemic area for schistosomiasis) kept as controls, were maintained in an enclosure (850 m2 in area). In this enclosure, a tank with water received 500 laboratory reared Biomph...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Modena CM,Coelho PM,Barbosa FS,Lima WS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molluscs with shells very similar to Oncomelania nosophora were collected at Pedro Leopoldo and Lagoa Santa counties, MG, Brazil. They were identified, according to shell and soft part morphology, as Idiopyrgus souleyetianus. The others hidrobioids identified in Brazil are also listed. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Lima LC,de Souza CP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old male without prior co-morbidities was admitted to hospital with Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia, where he was found to have liver and splenic abscesses. Further evaluation with echocardiography revealed a bicuspid aortic valve with severe insufficiency and a 1.68 x 0.86 cm vegetation. The patient re...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Handler MZ,Miriovsky B,Gendelman HE,Sandkovsky U

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey with histoplasmin skin test was performed in 392 poultry farmers and 265 workers considered without occupational risk of exposition to Histoplasma capsulatum, etiologic agent of histoplasmosis. The results were positive in 28.8% and 13.2% in both groups respectively. Statistically, there was ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Suárez Hernández M,Fernández Andreu CM,Estrada Ortiz A,Cisneros Despaigne E

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An E.L.I.S.A. test for antibody detection, with an exo-antigen of Coccidioides immitis was standardized in 67 humans sera diluted in 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/4000 and 1/8000. Eighteen sera from mycologically proved cases of coccidioidomycosis were studied: 5 were negative and 13 were positive in some dilutions. 3/26 sera of ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Tiraboschi IN,Marticorena B,Negroni R

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a zoonotic helminth found mainly infecting rats. It was studied the prevalence of C. hepaticum infection in Rattus norvegicus in an urban area of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), with low urban planning and sanitation. The presence of C. hepaticum was identified th...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Simões RO,Luque JL,Faro MJ,Motta E,Maldonado A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis are systemic fungal infections endemic in Brazil. Disseminated clinical forms are uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. We describe two HIV-negative patients with disseminated fungal infections, paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis, who were diagnosed by biopsies of su...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pereira GH,Lanzoni VP,Beirão EM,Timerman A,Melhem Mde S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is found in indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands and the Americas, whereas type 2 (HTLV-2) is widely distributed among the indigenous peoples of the Americas, where it appears to be more prevalent than HTLV-1, and in some tribes of Central Africa. HTLV-2 is considered an...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Paiva A,Casseb J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatant of boiled spleen saline-suspensions of Yersinia pestis experimentally infected animals were used as template for PCR amplification without DNA extraction. PCR sensitivity was enhanced by a second round of amplification (Nested). No amplification was observed from non-infected animals. ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Leal NC,Abath FG,Alves LC,de Almeida AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica somatic antigen, its partially purified fractions and excretion-secretion products were investigated as to serological, electrophoretic and biological properties. In a Sephadex G-100 column (SG-100), Fasciola hepatica total antigen (FhTA) gave 5 fractions, and SDS-PAGE analysis showed they were glyco...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cervi LA,Rubinstein H,Masih DT

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to verify the occurrence of intestinal parasites in 3 to 6-year-old children from daycare centers maintained by the municipal government of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Coproparasitological tests performed in 472 children have shown that 24.6% of them had some type of parasites...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Menezes AL,Lima VM,Freitas MT,Rocha MO,Silva EF,Dolabella SS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M. hominis and U. urealyticum are the better-known mycoplasma species pathogenic to the human genitourinary tract, causing mainly urethritis, bacterial vaginosis and pregnancy complications. In HIV-infected patients, the prevalence and role of these species is still not well known. The aim of this work was to determin...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Cordova CM,Cunha RA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cryptosporidiosis is an infection caused by Cryptosporidium spp, a coccidial protozoan of emergencial pathogenicity and responsible for severe and prostrating watery diarrhea, mainly in immunocompromised patients. Smears of stools submitted to concentration and staining by carbol fuchsin technique has been used ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Martinez I,Belda Neto FM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus were submitted to nutritional evaluation. Ten had the localized form of the disease (Group G1) and six the disseminated form (Group G2). The patients were submitted to anthropometric measurements (weight, height, Quetelét index, tricipital skin fold, subscapular skin f...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Barraviera SR,Dillon NL,Curi PR,Pereira PC,de Almeida DB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to find a better T. cruzi antigen and possible immunological markers for the diagnosis of different clinical forms of Chagas'disease, amastigote and trypomastigote antigens obtained from immunosuppressed mice infected with T. cruzi (Y strain) were assessed in comparison with conventional epimastigote ant...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Primavera KS,Umezawa ES,Peres BA,Camargo ME,Hoshino-Shimizu S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous pulmonary schistosome egg granulomas were present in mice submitted to partial portal vein ligation (Warren's model). The granulomas were characterized by cellular aggregations formed within alveolar tissue. Main cellular types were macrophages (epithelioid cells), eosinophils, plasma cells and lymphocytes. T...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Vidal MR,Barbosa Júnior AA,Andrade ZA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) expression is lower in cardiac chagasic patients and is related to worse cardiac function. The reduction of VIP in patients with Chagas disease may be a result of its enhanced degradation. To test this hypothesis, the tryptase and chymase expression was evaluated. We also relate...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Pereira FB,Dutra WO,Gollob KJ,Reis EA,Oliveira ALG,Rocha MODC,Menezes CADS

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, Leishmania species were identified by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The epidemiology of patients suspected of having American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre State, located in the Brazil/Peru/Bolivia tri-border was also investigated. By PCR, the DNA of Leishmania was...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Teles CB,Medeiros JF,Santos AP,Freitas LA,Katsuragawa TH,Cantanhêde LM,Ferreira Rde G,Camarg LM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to validate the rapid lateral flow Helicobacter pylori stool antigen test (One step H. pylori antigen test, ACON laboratories, San Diego, USA; Prime diagnostics, São Paulo), using 13C-Urea Breath Test as the gold standard for H. pylori infection diagnosis. A total of 98 consecutive patients, ...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Silva JM,Villares CA,Monteiro Mdo S,Colaúto C,dos Santos AF,Mattar R

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73 year-old white male, living in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in central Brazil, after an initial diagnosis of sinusitis was transferred to the neurology service with a 3-day evolution of intracranial hypertension. Exams showed lymphocytic leukemia and a tumor-like lesion, either an expanding in...

journal_title：Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

authors： Salgado PR,Gorski AG,Aleixo AR,de Barros EO

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00